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New Participant
July 22, 2021
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Adobe fillable form checkboxes issue with embed integration

  • July 22, 2021
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Hi there,
 
When we upload a fillable PDF and render it with the online Adobe PDF reader, the checkboxes don't act as supposed to.
 
When I open the document with the Adobe Reader desktop app, everything works accordingly, but not when I open it on the embed PDF reader. The problem is when I check one checkbox, all the other ones in the same group also check themselves automatically. Everything is fine on the desktop app.
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New Participant
July 22, 2021
Community Manager
July 22, 2021

When opening that PDF document in the API, I see the following error:

 

When the API detects unsuppported form fields, this dialog appears on the rendered PDF.  So, this is likely the issue.

 

From the documentation (see below):

Unsupported form fields

In the current version, following form fields are unsupported:

  • XFA forms

  • Digital Signature fields.

  • Barcode fields.

  • File picker text field

  • RTF (rich text) text field

  • Fields containing JavaScript or any kind of calculation and validation

  • Text field and drop downs with some special and custom formats

  • PDF Actions that includes button Submit scenarios (only button viewing is supported)

 

Here is the relavent documentation page link:  https://opensource.adobe.com/pdfembed-sdk-docs/howtos_ui.html#forms-handling 

New Participant
July 23, 2021

There are also Digital Signature fields on the document. The error is probably related to those fields and not related to the checkboxes issue. We'll still take a look at the documentation.